What color is this dress??? (the interwebs are asploding)......

[CraKaJaX]

Most news is completely irrelevant to your life. This dress has just as much impact on your life as most news you'd see on TV.

This is true. It's also 99% depressing besides that ONE feel-good story. Beheadings, bombings, rapes, murders, fatal car accidents (that was the highlight this morning), buildings collapsing or exploding, etc. Usually I just end up on ESPN :awe:

 

[luv2liv]

100 posts later, noboby wants to know the chick wearing the dress?

 

[gorcorps]

This is true. It's also 99% depressing besides that ONE feel-good story. Beheadings, bombings, rapes, murders, fatal car accidents (that was the highlight this morning), buildings collapsing or exploding, etc. Usually I just end up on ESPN :awe:

Yeah, my buddies give me shit for not being up on current events. Knowing where the latest ISIS attack took place, or what happened at the Oscars, all have zero bearing on my life. Why bother wasting time and brain space on such crap? At least this dress thing is entertaining

 

[GTaudiophile]

So is this a Macy's social media campaign or what?

 

[gorcorps]

So... Does this mean you can beat somebody until they're gold and white?

 

[vi edit]

The real question is... What phone was used to take this pic? We can finally answer the question of what phone has the shittiest camera, because anything capable of making a blue/black dress look white/gold must be damn awful

This reminds me of so many pictures that my wife has taken with some filter in iOS7. Everything just comes out as a washed out orange and it drives me absolutely bat shit crazy. She doesn't see it.

She is steadfast convinced that this dress is white an gold. I'm unwavering in my conviction that it's an overexposed blue and black. I think I've just done enough image editing and photography to know what my brain is expecting for the "real" color and seeing through any shitting lighting and filters done by the camera.

That's what drives me insane with the filters on instagram and the latest iOS versions. They jack with what I know the color should be and change it. I'm fine with oversaturated colors and actual prefer that. It's why I'm drawn to AMOLED screens over LCD and tend to overboost some of the saturation in pictures that post process.

But applying a color filter over something. No thank you.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Prior to looking at the Vice article I would have been firmly convinced that the dress was white and gold. Even after seeing that I don't find that I can see the original picture as blue and black.

 

[z1ggy]

I can't believe how big this thing has blown up. It's really fucking sad to be honest. Millions of people would rather gossip and BS over some dress' color, than talk about how the NSA breaks into SD card manufactures, how ISIS is kidnapping more people, etc etc.

 

[vi edit]

I can't believe how big this thing has blown up. It's really fucking sad to be honest. Millions of people would rather gossip and BS over some dress' color, than talk about how the NSA breaks into SD card manufactures, how ISIS is kidnapping more people, etc etc.

I actually find the science behind this incredibly interesting in how the composition of our eyes changes our perception of light and color from person to person.

 

[IronWing]

Is this one of those script pushed images we were discussing in the Hume thread?

 

[IronWing]

I can't believe how big this thing has blown up. It's really fucking sad to be honest. Millions of people would rather gossip and BS over some dress' color, than talk about how the NSA breaks into SD card manufactures, how ISIS is kidnapping more people, etc etc.

ISIS wears black dresses. This I'm sure of.

 

[CraKaJaX]

ISIS wears black dresses. This I'm sure of.

Bullshit. They're blue on my screen.

 

[Zeze]

Anyone that's saying White & Gold.. I thought they were all trolling and this was some kind of a lame troll meme.

But it looks like some ARE genuinely seeing those colors.

I genuinely see Blue & Black. I can't even fathom blue being white because it's blue is too strong, it's not faint. The black is kind of a shitty brownish black, but nowhere near gold.

I see the same on my Galaxy S4.

 

[IronWing]

Bullshit. They're blue on my screen.

If you can't see ISIS as a black and white issue, you must be for the terrorists. Just like the folks who see gold and white. Terrorist retinas, pure terrorist.

 

[rh71]

Anyone that's saying White & Gold.. I thought they were all trolling and this was some kind of a lame troll meme.

But it looks like some ARE genuinely seeing those colors.

I genuinely see Blue & Black. I can't even fathom blue being white because it's blue is too strong, it's not faint. The black is kind of a shitty brownish black, but nowhere near gold.

I see the same on my Galaxy S4.

As mentioned, I saw white/gold the FIRST time on my phone. It was nearly as white as FB's background and the gold (a mixed color mind you) was also distinct. An hour later it was pure blue toward black and I have no f'n idea how that gold became black to me.

 

[vi edit]

For the Blue & Blackers...do you have troubles adjusting to darkness quickly? Like when a light turns off, does it take you a while to adjust? That's one thing I'm reading. People that see the white and gold are able to adjust faster in poor lighting. That holds true for my wife and I.

The catch is that those of us who have troubles with lighting are better at interpreting color.

Opinions?

 

[Zeze]

As mentioned, I saw white/gold the FIRST time on my phone. It was as white as FB's background, I swear on it. An hour later it couldn't be any bluer.

I found the answer to this phenomenon.

Your brain interprets color based on CONTEXT and its past experience. If you see an apple in the dark, you interpret it as 'red' although 'scientific color value' is not red at all.

At a first glance....

If your brain interprets the picture as 'overexposed', then you see it as White & Gold based on that context.

If your brain interprets the picture as is, then you see it as Blue & White.


/thread.

What's hilarious for me is that I can't see it as White & Gold whatsoever. It's so plainly Blue & White.

 

[Zeze]

For the Blue & Blackers...do you have troubles adjusting to darkness quickly? Like when a light turns off, does it take you a while to adjust? That's one thing I'm reading. People that see the white and gold are able to adjust faster in poor lighting. That holds true for my wife and I.

The catch is that those of us who have troubles with lighting are better at interpreting color.

Opinions?

No, I adjust fine in the dark.

And the picture has been proven factually as Black & Blue by photoshop. If anything, Gold & Whiters need to get their brain checked.

 

[vi edit]

I found the answer to this phenomenon.

Your brain interprets color based on CONTEXT and its past experience. If you see an apple in the dark, you interpret it as 'red' although 'scientific color value' is not red at all.

At a first glance....

If your brain interprets the picture as 'overexposed', then you see it as White & Gold based on that context.

If your brain interprets the picture as is, then you see it as Blue & White.

/thread.

Ummm....

What if my brain says it's overexposed (because it is) and I still see blue and black?

That's exactly what I told my wife last night when she showed this to me. I thought she was trolling me too. She hands me her phone and says "What color is this dress".

My answer was "it's an overexposed blue and black with a shitty instagram filter on it".

She looked at me like I was insane.

 

[gorcorps]

No, I adjust fine in the dark.

And the picture has been proven factually as Black & Blue by photoshop. If anything, Gold & Whiters need to get their brain checked.

Where do you see that? I've only seen evidence that shows photoshop sees the black as brown... Definitely not black

 

[Zeze]

Where do you see that? I've only seen evidence that shows photoshop sees the black as brown... Definitely not black

 

[gorcorps]

For the Blue & Blackers...do you have troubles adjusting to darkness quickly? Like when a light turns off, does it take you a while to adjust? That's one thing I'm reading. People that see the white and gold are able to adjust faster in poor lighting. That holds true for my wife and I.

The catch is that those of us who have troubles with lighting are better at interpreting color.

Opinions?

Actually I'm wondering if the state of your adjustment has an effect in itself. Checking it yesterday being in a dark house I only saw white/gold. Checking it today while on a bus on a sunny day it looks a lot more blue than I remember yesterday. Since my eyes were more adjusted to the dark house yesterday I wonder how big of an effect that's had.

 

[Zeze]

Meh, I'm no longer interested in the subject as we have identified the root cause.

It's just brain interpreting color differently based on how it chose to interpret the context. The 'real' color of the dress IRL is irrelevant, only the image is. And people see it one way or the other due to the clipping white value flash 'mirror' on top right of the image (which acts as the context).

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

I just showered and came back, and now see it as blue and black. Very very strange and interesting . . .

 

[Newell Steamer]

I see a viral campaign who's intent was to get lots of women who love attention to get "that" dress.